230 DUCK. 



deep red brown, beautifully mottled with black and white ; back 

 brown black, mottled with white ; over the thighs the same ; all the 

 under parts marked as the lower part of the neck ; rump and vent 

 ferruginous; wing coverts white; second quills green, the greater 

 and tail black ; legs black. 



Inhabits New Zealand ; found at Dusky Bay in April, called 

 there Pooa dugghee dugghee. — Sir Jos. Banks. It probably may 

 be that mentioned in Forster's Voyage ; which he says, is the size 

 of the Eider Duck ; plumage blackish brown, elegantly sprinkled 

 with white; rump and vent ferruginous; secondaries green; quills 

 and tail black. 



Clayton, in his account of Falkland Islands, mentions a bird 

 called Mountain Goose, bigger than the Muscovy Duck : plumage 

 on the back speckled brown and greenish black ; towards the neck 

 glossy beautiful gold-colour; breast like that of a Pheasant. It is 

 said always to feed on the mountains, to be well tasted, and pre- 

 ferable to the other sorts, but is scarce. He adds, that like other 

 Geese, it is best in autumn, when the cranberries are ripe, on which 

 they feed. Mr. Clayton talks of another, as large as a Tame Goose, 

 the Gander black and white speckled ; the Goose almost like the 

 Mountain Goose, but darker, and not so beautiful. These feed in 

 the vallies, on wild cranberries and grass ; are in general good food, 

 but best and fattest in February, Mareh, and April. The first of 

 these appears to be our Variegated one, but as to the last, we cannot 

 easily determine. 



13— PAINTED GOOSE. 



Anas picta, hid. Orn. ii. 836. Gm. Lin. i. 504. 



Painted Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 443. Cook's Voy. i. p. 96. 



LENGTH twenty-eight inches. Bill small, black ; irides ash- 

 colour ; head and neck white, inclining to ash-colour at the hind 

 head ; the feathers of the forehead produced forwards on each side 



